POINCARE’S TRIUMPH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6873, 1 April 1929, Page 7

POINCARE’S TRIUMPH

OPPOSITION OVERCOME, THE “RELIGIOUS ACTS" United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, March 29. The Press to-day commoiftcd favourably on tho adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of nine projects, known as “Religious Acts,’’ which are generally hailed as a triumph which may break tJio force of tho groups opposing M. Poincare’s Government. The Press asserted that tho anti-clerical attitude of tho Radical Socialist Opposition had proved ineffectual against tho sound majority which tho Premier now commands. It predicted that in contrast to the recent shaky position of the Cabinet tho passage of the “Religious Acts’’ would demonstrate that the force of tho Opposition no longer exists as a possible check to the Administration. Most of the comment described tho Radical campaign against tho Cabinet as belonging to a regime which already has passed in Franco and which now properly “should bo exhibited among the curio 3 of the waxworks.’’

* WHEAT TARIFF. ' ’ PARIS, March 29. Tho semi-official journal, Temps, sharply critises the projected efforts to increase tho tariff on wheat from 35 francs per quintal to 45 francs, and, perhaps, 50. The newspaper asserts that tho aid the farmer will derive from the proposed measure is dubious, in view of the quantity of stocks in warehouses and the hand winter. It adds: “Tho solo effoct would be an added burden to tho consumer of 250 million francs, and perhaps more.”